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Abraham M, Becker R, The Classical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism, 8th ed, Blackie & Son, 1932. Green G, An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism, T Wheelhouse, 1828. Heaviside O, Electromagnetic Theory, 3rd ed, 3 vols, The Electrician, 1893, 1899, 1912.
Electricity and Magnetism is a standard textbook in electromagnetism originally written by Nobel laureate Edward Mills Purcell in 1963. [1] Along with David Griffiths ' Introduction to Electrodynamics , this book is one of the most widely adopted undergraduate textbooks in electromagnetism . [ 2 ]
Volume 2, Electricity and Magnetism, by Purcell (Harvard), is particularly well known, and was influential for its use of relativity in the presentation of the subject at the introductory college level. Half a century later the book is still in print, in an updated version by authors Purcell and Morin.
Andrew Warwick (2003): "In developing the mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism in the Treatise, Maxwell made a number of errors, and for students with only a tenuous grasp of the physical concepts of basic electromagnetic theory and the specific techniques to solve some problems, it was extremely difficult to discriminate between ...
The book is not merely a re-statement of some parts of A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism.Maxwell notes that. In the larger treatise I sometimes made use of methods which I do not think the best in themselves, but without which the student cannot follow the investigations of the founders of the Mathematical Theory of Electricity.
The book covers topics relating to motion, fluids, sound, thermal processes, electricity, magnetism, optics, and vision. There is a website for the book which stores over 11,000 references, 2,000 links, new material, a detailed index, and other supplementary material. There is also a collection of YouTube videos by the author on the material.
Cover of A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism. Electricity and magnetism were originally considered to be two separate forces. This view changed with the publication of James Clerk Maxwell's 1873 A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism [6] in which the interactions of positive and negative charges were shown to be mediated by one force ...
In some materials, the electrons are bound to the atomic nuclei and so are not free to move around but the energy required to set them free is low. In these materials, called semiconductors, the conductivity is low at low temperatures but as the temperature is increased the electrons gain more thermal energy and the conductivity increases. [27]